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| David WilkinsonSummaryAffiliation: University of South Australia Country: Australia Publications
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STD syndrome packets: improving syndromic management of sexually transmitted diseases in developing countriesD Wilkinson
Centre for Epidemiological Research in South Africa, Medical Research Council, and Hlabisa Hospital
Sex Transm Dis 26:152-6. 1999....- Inequitable distribution of general practitioners in Australia: analysis by state and territory using census dataD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 8:87-93. 2000..While these data do not inform the absolute level of service needed in a community; they do suggest that strategies to redress the inequitable distribution are required... - Amalgamation and collaboration in rural general practices: early experience with the GP links program in rural South AustraliaD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, The University of Adelaide and The University of South Australia, Whyalla and Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 9:79-83. 2001.... - Variation in mortality rates in Australia: correlation with Indigenous status, remoteness and socio-economic deprivationD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, University of Adelaide, Australia
J Public Health Med 23:74-7. 2001.... 
Effect of removing user fees on attendance for curative and preventive primary health care services in rural South AfricaD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, Adelaide University and University of South Australia, University of South Australia Whyalla Campus, Nicolson Avenue, Whyalla Norrie SA 5608, Australia
Bull World Health Organ 79:665-71. 2001..Governments should remain vigilant about the effects of new health policies in order to ensure that objectives are being met...- Positive impact of rural academic family practices on rural medical recruitment and retention in South AustraliaD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 9:29-33. 2001..Rural academic family practices have successfully recruited and retained medical staff in this setting over the past few years. This model of practice may be a useful recruitment and retention strategy for other parts of Australia... - Selected demographic, social and work characteristics of the Australian general medical practitioner workforce: comparing capital cities with regional areasD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, University of Adelaide, University of South Australia, Whyalla, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 8:327-34. 2000..The regional workforce tends to be made up of more males and is older than in capital cities. Monitoring trends in these characteristics could help to evaluate initiatives aimed at addressing regional workforce issues... - Nonoxynol-9 spermicide for prevention of vaginally acquired HIV and other sexually transmitted infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials including more than 5000 womenDavid Wilkinson
Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Lancet Infect Dis 2:613-7. 2002..There is some evidence of harm through genital lesions. N-9 cannot be recommended for HIV and STI prevention... - Nonoxynol-9 fails to prevents STDs, but microbicide research continuesDavid Wilkinson
Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, SA 5000, Adelaide, Australia
Lancet 360:962-3. 2002 - Impact of undergraduate and postgraduate rural training, and medical school entry criteria on rural practice among Australian general practitioners: national study of 2414 doctorsDavid Wilkinson
Division of Health Science, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Med Educ 37:809-14. 2003..To determine the association between rural undergraduate training, rural postgraduate training and medical school entry criteria favouring rural students, on likelihood of working in rural Australian general practice... - Youth suicide trends in Australian metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, 1988-1997D Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, The University of Adelaide, Whyalla, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:822-8. 2000..The objective of this study was to examine trends in suicide among 15-34-year-olds living in Australian metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas between 1988 and 1997... - Associations between rural background and where South Australian general practitioners workD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, University of Adelaide, SA
Med J Aust 173:137-40. 2000..To determine the association between rural background on practice location of general practitioners (GPs) (rural or urban)... - An unbridgeable gap? Comparing the HIV/AIDS epidemics in Australia and sub-Saharan AfricaD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, University of Adelaide
Aust N Z J Public Health 24:276-80. 2000..To compare the HIV/AIDS epidemics in Australia and sub-Saharan Africa, to outline reasons for differences, and to consider implications for the Asia and Pacific region... - Tuberculosis and health sector reform: experience of integrating tuberculosis services into the district health system in rural South AfricaD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, University of South Australia Whyalla Campus, Whyalla Norrie
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 3:938-43. 1999..Hlabisa health district, South Africa... - HIV infection among women admitted to the gynaecology service of a district hospital in South AfricaD Wilkinson
Centre for Epidemiological Research in South Africa, Medical Research Council
Int J STD AIDS 10:735-7. 1999..The length of hospital stay (mean 5.4 days) and mortality (1%) were similar in the 2 groups. Inpatient gynaecology services may be an important setting in Africa, within which to provide HIV education, counselling and care... - Simplified DOTS to improve tuberculosis control in Asia and the Pacific?D Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, University of Adelaide
Med J Aust 171:370-2. 1999..Simplification eases implementation and may make a real difference in the fight against this widespread disease... - Establishing a new university department of rural health: the first 2 years of the South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote HealthD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, University of Adelaide, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 7:223-8. 1999..These early achievements demonstrate UDRH potential to have a real impact on health worker education, service delivery, and public health status in rural and remote areas. This strong foundation must now be built on... - Inequitable distribution of general practitioners in Australia: estimating need through the Robin Hood IndexD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, University of Adelaide
Aust N Z J Public Health 24:71-5. 2000..From Census data, to document the distribution of general practitioners in Australia and to estimate the number of general practitioners needed to achieve an equitable distribution accounting for community health need... - Comparison of trends in method-specific suicide rates in Australia and England & Wales, 1968-97D Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, University of Adelaide, SA
Aust N Z J Public Health 24:153-7. 2000..To compare secular trends in method-specific suicide rates among young people in Australia and England & Wales between 1968 and 1997... - Trial-of-antibiotic algorithm for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in a district hospital in a developing country with high HIV prevalenceD Wilkinson
Centre for Epidemiological Research in Southern Africa, Medical Research Council, Hlabisa, South Africa
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 4:513-8. 2000..To evaluate a diagnostic algorithm for pulmonary tuberculosis based on smear microscopy and objective response to trial of antibiotics... - High HIV incidence and prevalence among young women in rural South Africa: developing a cohort for intervention trialsD Wilkinson
Centre for Epidemiological Research in South Africa, Medical Research Council, Hlabisa
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 23:405-9. 2000..To measure prevalence and model incidence of HIV infection... - Mortality variation across Australia: descriptive data for states and territories, and statistical divisionsD Wilkinson
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, University of Adelaide
Aust N Z J Public Health 24:226-33. 2000..To describe variation in all cause and selected cause-specific mortality rates across Australia... - Cancer and cancer risk in South Australia: what evidence for a rural-urban health differential?David Wilkinson
Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 12:61-6. 2004..To determine the extent of evidence for a rural-urban health differential in cancer and cancer risk in South Australia... - Inequitable provision of optimal services for patients with chronic heart failure: a national geo-mapping studyRobyn A Clark
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Med J Aust 186:169-73. 2007..To compare the location and accessibility of current Australian chronic heart failure (CHF) management programs and general practice services with the probable distribution of the population with CHF... - Are socio-economically disadvantaged Australians making more or less use of the Enhanced Primary Care Medicare Benefit Schedule item numbers?David Wilkinson
Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide
Aust Health Rev 26:43-9. 2003..Overall, populations living in the most disadvantaged quartiles have similar or higher levels of EPC uptake, apparently due, at least in part, to greater than average use of EPC services by general practitioners in these areas... - Chronic heart failure beyond city limitsRobyn A Clark
The University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Rural Remote Health 5:443. 2005..The aim of this study is to determine if the rates of CHF differ between urban and rural Australia... - Variation in levels of uptake of enhanced primary care item numbers between rural and urban settings, November 1999 to October 2001David Wilkinson
Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Aust Health Rev 25:123-30. 2002..For rural and urban Divisions of General Practice, there is a wide range in the rate of services provided, between and within Divisions. However, overall, more services are provided per FTE GP in rural Divisions... - Rural doctors and rural backgrounds: how strong is the evidence? A systematic reviewGillian Laven
Department of General Practice, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 11:277-84. 2003..We sought to summarise the evidence for an association between rural background and rural practice by systematically reviewing the national and international published reports... - Empiric validation of the rural Australian Medical Undergraduate Scholarship 'rural background' criterionGillian A Laven
Department of General Practice, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 13:137-41. 2005..Eligibility criteria include having lived in a rural community for five consecutive or eight cumulative years. We sought to validate the above-specified criterion using data from the Australian National Rural Background Study... - Prolonged effects of a home-based intervention in patients with chronic illnessSue Pearson
Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Arch Intern Med 166:645-50. 2006..045). CONCLUSION: This unique study suggests that a nonspecific HBI provides long-term cost benefits in a range of chronic illnesses, except for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease... - Factors associated with rural practice among Australian-trained general practitionersGillian A Laven
Department of General Practice, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA
Med J Aust 179:75-9. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: GPs' and their partners' rural background (residence and primary and secondary schooling) influences choice of practice location, with partners' background appearing to exert more influence... - Issues and challenges facing rural hospitalsDavid Wilkinson
Division of Health Science, University of South Australia
Aust Health Rev 25:94-105. 2002..Rural hospitals' roles as key aged care providers in the country is a particular challenge... - A new solution for an old problem? Effects of a nurse-led, multidisciplinary, home-based intervention on readmission and mortality in patients with chronic atrial fibrillationSally Inglis
Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
J Cardiovasc Nurs 19:118-27. 2004..However, there is a paucity of studies examining the potential benefits of optimizing the postdischarge management of patients with chronic AF... - Electronic medical records may be inadequate for improving population health status through general practice: cervical smears as a case studyCaroline O M Laurence
Department of General Practice, University of Adelaide, South Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 28:317-20. 2004..corrected] To determine whether routine electronic records are an accurate source of population health data in general practice through reviewing cervical smears rates in four South Australian practices... - Community participation in organising rural general practice: is it sustainable?Judy Taylor
Spencer Gulf Rural Health School, University of South Australia, Whyalla Norrie, South Australia, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 14:144-7. 2006..We analysed community participation in organising rural general medical practice in order to suggest ways to extend and sustain it... - Increasing rural activity and curriculum content in the Adelaide University Medical SchoolCaroline Laurence
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, Adelaide University and University of South Australia, Whyalla and Adelaide, and Department of General Practice, Adelaide University, Adelaide, South Australia
Aust J Rural Health 10:220-8. 2002.... - Uptake of health assessments, care plans and case conferences by general practitioners through the Enhanced Primary Care program between November 1999 and October 2001David Wilkinson
Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide
Aust Health Rev 25:1-11. 2002..Uptake of the EPC item numbers in the first two years of their availability has been rapid and has reached substantial levels, especially for HA and CP. The uptake of CC has been slower... - Self-reported patterns of health services utilisation: an urban-rural comparison in South AustraliaPaula Dempsey
South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health, Adelaide University, Whyalla, South Australia
Aust J Rural Health 11:81-8. 2003..Similar results were obtained when residence was classified in the three different ways... - Does health service utilisation vary by remoteness? South Australian population data and the Accessibility and Remoteness Index of AustraliaKerena A Eckert
University of South Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 28:426-32. 2004..To compare rates of self-reported use of health services between rural, remote and urban South Australians... - Evidence-based practice in rural and remote clinical practice: where is the evidence?Jacqueline E Parsons
Health Technology Assessment Unit, Department of Public Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 11:242-8. 2003..To critically review the evidence regarding barriers to implementing research findings in rural and remote settings, and the ways those barriers have been addressed... - Prevalence of asthma and asthma action plans in South Australia: population surveys from 1990 to 2001David H Wilson
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Med J Aust 178:483-5. 2003..To assess trends in the prevalence of self-reported doctor-diagnosed asthma, associated asthma related morbidity, and the uptake of written asthma action plans in South Australia, 1990-2001... 
Assessment for selection for the health care professions and specialty training: consensus statement and recommendations from the Ottawa 2010 ConferenceDavid Prideaux
Medical Education, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5064, Australia
Med Teach 33:215-23. 2011..The social accountability mandate of medical and health professional schools demands that social inclusion, workforce issues and widening of access are embedded in the principles of good assessment for selection...- Hot summers and heart failure: seasonal variations in morbidity and mortality in Australian heart failure patients (1994-2005)Sally C Inglis
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Eur J Heart Fail 10:540-9. 2008..There are minimal reports of seasonal variations in chronic heart failure (CHF)-related morbidity and mortality beyond the northern hemisphere... - Medical students and rural general practitioners: congruent views on the reality of recruitment into rural medicineDiann Eley
Rural Clinical Division, University of Queensland, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 15:12-20. 2007..In-depth exploration of the perceptions, experiences and expectations of current long-term rural GPs and medical students intent on a rural career, regarding the current and future state of rural medicine... - Coping with increasing numbers of medical students in rural clinical schools: options and opportunitiesDiann S Eley
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Med J Aust 188:669-71. 2008..The dilemma is providing this quality rural experience to all medical students in the immediate future. We suggest approaches to meet this challenge at a policy, organisational, student and teaching level... - Mapping the emergence of heart disease in a black, urban population in Africa: the Heart of Soweto StudySimon Stewart
Department of Cardiology, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, BERTSHAM 2013 Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
Int J Cardiol 108:101-8. 2006..Initially involving more than 15,000 individuals, the unique Heart of Soweto Study has the potential to provide a wealth of information in this regard... - A population view of mental illness in South Australia: broader issues than locationKerena A Eckert
School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Rural Remote Health 6:541. 2006..Psychosocial factors were more important determinants of mental illness... - Developing a rural workforce through medical education: lessons from down underDiann Eley
Rural Clinical Division, University of Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Teach Learn Med 20:53-61. 2008..Rural Clinical Schools in Australia are a government initiative to help address the rural workforce shortage at the medical school level. This article reports on the approaches and outcomes from one Rural Clinical School... - Association between HIV-1 infection, the etiology of genital ulcer disease, and response to syndromic managementPrashini Moodley
Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
Sex Transm Dis 30:241-5. 2003..04). At follow-up, 40/407 (10%) showed a decreased healing tendency, not associated with ulcer etiology or HIV-1 seropositivity. CONCLUSION: Response to syndromic management of GUD was acceptable and not associated with HIV-1 coinfection... - The Professional Development Program of the Australian College of Rural and Remote MedicineMelissa Crampton
Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, Brisbane, Queensland
Aust Fam Physician 31:952-6. 2002..The PDP will evolve over time to meet the needs of doctors and communities in rural and remote Australia... - Influence of HIV-1 coinfection on effective management of abnormal vaginal dischargePrashini Moodley
Africa Centre for Population Studies and Reproductive Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
Sex Transm Dis 30:1-5. 2003..001). CONCLUSIONS: Clinical and microbiologic response to SM of the nonulcerative STIs was not affected by HIV-1 coinfection, but cure rates for bacterial vaginosis were reduced... - International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine (ICRAM): what does it mean for Australia?David Wilkinson
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD
Med J Aust 181:658-9. 2004 - "The more I give, the more I receive."David Wilkinson
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
Med J Aust 183:659-61. 2005..Personal reflections on 12 years as a doctor in Africa... - Entry tests for graduate medical programs: is it time to re-think?Malcolm H Parker
Med J Aust 187:255; author reply 255. 2007 - Are N-of-1 trials an economically viable option to improve access to selected high cost medications? The Australian experiencePaul A Scuffham
School of Medicine, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, QLD, Australia
Value Health 11:97-109. 2008..To explore the economic viability of N-of-1 trials for improving access to selected high cost medications in Australia... - Medical school selection criteria and the prediction of academic performanceDavid Wilkinson
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Med J Aust 188:349-54. 2008..To assess how well prior academic performance, admission tests, and interviews predict academic performance in a graduate medical school... - Spectrum of heart disease and risk factors in a black urban population in South Africa (the Heart of Soweto Study): a cohort studyKaren Sliwa
Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Lancet 371:915-22. 2008..We aimed to investigate the clinical range of disorders related to cardiovascular disease in patients presenting for the first time to a tertiary-care centre... - Bonded training places: evidence-based policy or a stab in the dark?David Wilkinson
Aust J Rural Health 11:213-4. 2003 - New tax and super changes from 1 July 2008David Wilkinson
Aust Vet J 86:N21. 2008 - Trichomonas vaginalis is associated with pelvic inflammatory disease in women infected with human immunodeficiency virusPrashini Moodley
Africa Centre for Population Studies and Reproductive Health and Departments of Medical Microbiology, Durban, South Africa
Clin Infect Dis 34:519-22. 2002..vaginalis increased significantly (P=.002); no association was found in patients without HIV-1. T. vaginalis infection of the lower genital tract is associated with a clinical diagnosis of PID in HIV-1-infected women... - Performance indicators of a primary care skin cancer clinic networkDeborah A Askew
Med J Aust 186:159. 2007 - Treatment of maternal syphilis in rural South Africa: effect of multiple doses of benzathine penicillin on pregnancy lossLandon Myer
School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Trop Med Int Health 9:1216-21. 2004..We examined the effect of various doses of benzathine penicillin on pregnancy loss among women with a positive Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) test result in a rural South African district... - "Futuristic medical education"Louise Young
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia
Med J Aust 183:590-1. 2005 - Comparative academic performance of medical students in rural and urban clinical settingsBarb Waters
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
Med Educ 40:117-20. 2006..3 versus 76.2%, P = 0.038) and lower in the medicine rotation (65.5 versus 68.6%, P = 0.037). CONCLUSION: Academic performance among students studying in rural and urban settings is comparable... - General practitioners with special interests: risk of a good thing becoming bad?David Wilkinson
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD 4005
Med J Aust 183:84-6. 2005..These include loss of generalist skills among GPs, fewer practitioners working in less well-remunerated areas, such as nursing home visits, and issues related to standards of care and training... - Skin cancer clinics in Australia: workload profile and performance indicators from an analysis of billing dataDavid Wilkinson
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, Australia
Med J Aust 184:162-4. 2006..6). The estimated NNT was similar to that reported previously in general practice. More data are needed on health outcomes, including effectiveness of treatment and surgical repair... - The role of paracetamol in chronic pain: an evidence-based approachC Jane Nikles
Discipline of General Practice, The University of Queensland, Herston, Herston, Queensland 4006, Australia
Am J Ther 12:80-91. 2005..In patients with chronic pain, paracetamol can play an important role as an NSAID sparer, with resultant benefits in terms of reduced adverse effects and cost savings... - Skin cancer medicine in primary care: towards an agenda for quality health outcomesDavid Wilkinson
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia
Med J Aust 184:11-2. 2006..We propose an agenda of training, standards, accreditation, audit and research to ensure that skin cancer clinics provide optimal health outcomes for patients... - Prospective study of wound infections in dermatologic surgery in the absence of prophylactic antibioticsAnthony J Dixon
Skinalert Skin Cancer Clinics, Geelong, Australia
Dermatol Surg 32:819-26; discussion 826-7. 2006..The study aimed to identify wound sites/procedures where infection incidence was over 5%, such that these circumstances may warrant wound infection antibiotic prophylaxis... - Clinical practice with anti-dementia drugs: a consensus statement from British Association for PsychopharmacologyAlistair Burns
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
J Psychopharmacol 20:732-55. 2006..Patients, their carers, and clinicians deserve to be optimistic in a field which often attracts therapeutic nihilism... - Abeta species removal after abeta42 immunizationJames A R Nicoll
Division of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 65:1040-8. 2006..Abeta immunotherapy can clear all Abeta species from the cortex. However, if it is to be used for treatment of established Alzheimer disease, then the residual tau pathology and cerebral amyloid angiopathy require further study... - Skin cancer surgery in Australia 2001-2005: the changing role of the general practitionerDeborah A Askew
Discipline of General Practice, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Med J Aust 187:210-4. 2007..To describe changing patterns of skin cancer surgery by Australian general practitioners and make comparisons with specialists...